First-Year Seminar: |
English 140 Fall 2003 Professor Portnoy Email Address: alisse@umich.edu |
Schedule of Assignments Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date listed. |
A very special thanks to Anne Curzan, Rebecca Ingalls,
Joshua Miller, and Kavita Padiyar
for their suggestions and assistance with readings for this class.
September | October | November | December |
Date | Day | Topics for Discussion and Assignments Due |
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September 2 | Tuesday | First day of class Welcome and introductions Declaration of Independence |
September 4 | Thursday | Course Information, Schedule of Assignments |
September 9 | Tuesday | Terministic Screens |
September 11 | Thursday | Discussions of theory and texts continue from Tuesday |
September 16 | Tuesday | Words, Words, Words |
September 18 | Thursday | Communities of Practice and Discourse Communities Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, "Communities of Practice" Bizzell, "What is a Discourse Community?" |
September 23 | Tuesday | Identification Heath, "Identification" Jasinski, "Identification" |
September 25 | Thursday | Discussions continue Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet? |
September 30 | Tuesday | Constitutive Rhetoric |
October 2 | Thursday | Guest Lecture: Anne Curzan |
October 7 | Tuesday | Politics |
October 9 | Thursday | Discussions continue |
October 14 | Tuesday | No Class: Fall Break |
October 16 | Thursday | Gender Nilsen, "Sexism in English: A 1990s Update" Miller and Swift, "Who's In Charge of the English Language?" |
October 21 | Tuesday | [Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women] |
October 23 | Thursday | Speech Codes Toobin, "Speechless" Hentoff, "'Speech Codes' on the Campus and the Problems of Free Speech" Mid-semester evaluation of the course |
October 28 | Tuesday | Discussions continue |
October 30 | Thursday | First Exam |
November 4 | Tuesday | Bilingualism |
November 6 | Thursday | Discussions continue |
November 11 | Tuesday | Black English Jones, "What's Wrong with Black English" Jordan, "Nobody Mean More to Me Than You And the Future Life of Willie Jordan" Baldwin, "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" Rickford and Rickford, "What's Going On?" Smitherman, "English Teacher, Why You Be Doing the Thangs You Don't Do?" |
November 13 | Thursday | Discussions continue |
November 18 | Tuesday | Constructions of Categories and History |
November 20 | Thursday | [Off the Straight and Narrow: Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Television] |
November 25 | Tuesday | Discussions continue |
November 27 | Thursday | No class: Thanksgiving recess |
December 2 | Tuesday | Dyer, "White" (excerpt) [Being White] |
December 4 | Thursday | Wrap-up, review, and class evaluations |
December 9 | Tuesday | Second Exam |
September | October | November | December |
Most recent update: August 21, 2003.
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